Treasury of Scripture
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Exodus 17:5,6,9-12 And the LORD said to Moses, Go on before the people, and take with you of the elders of Israel; and your rod...
Numbers 20:8-12 Take the rod, and gather you the assembly together, you, and Aaron your brother, and speak you to the rock before their eyes...
all the waters. As the Nile was held sacred by the Egyptians, as well as the animals it contained, to which they annually sacrificed a girl, or as others say, both a boy and girl, God might have designed this plague as a punishment for such idolatry and cruelty; and to shew them the baseness of those elements which they reverenced, and the insufficiency of the gods in which they trusted. All the punishments brought upon them bore a strict analogy to their crimes.
Genesis 7:17,18 And the flood was forty days on the earth; and the waters increased, and bore up the ark, and it was lift up above the earth...
Psalm 78:44 And had turned their rivers into blood; and their floods, that they could not drink.
Psalm 105:29 He turned their waters into blood, and slew their fish.
John 2:9-11 When the ruler of the feast had tasted the water that was made wine, and knew not from where it was...
Revelation 8:8 And the second angel sounded, and as it were a great mountain burning with fire was cast into the sea...